Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 23
Immediately the fifty heroes got on board, and seizing their oars, held them perpendicularly in the air, while Orpheus (who liked such a task far better than rowing) swept his fingers across the harp.
Who acts: fifty heroes, Orpheus · What happens: get, seize, hold, like, row, sweep · To what, where: board, oars, air, task, fingers, harp
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty heroes, Orpheus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heroes | det |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 heroes | nummod |
| 4 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 board | case |
| 7 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seizing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seizing | cc |
| 10 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 got | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 oars | nmod:poss |
| 12 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seizing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obj |
| 16 | perpendicularly | perpendicularly | ADV | _ | 14 held | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 swept | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 swept | mark |
| 22 | Orpheus | Orpheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 swept | nsubj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 liked | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 liked | nsubj |
| 25 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Orpheus | acl:relcl |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 task | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 task | det |
| 28 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 liked | obj |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 better | advmod |
| 30 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 rowing | advmod |
| 31 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 32 rowing | mark |
| 32 | rowing | row | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 liked | advcl |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 rowing | punct |
| 34 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 swept | obj |
| 37 | across | across | ADP | _ | 39 harp | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 harp | det |
| 39 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 swept | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the fifty heroes | board | immediately property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on board=Source | |||
| 2 | seize | gerund | the fifty heroes not said here | heroes's oars | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | oars = oar | the air | perpendicularly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in air=Location | |||
| 4 | like | past | Orpheus | such task | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot task=Theme | ||||
| 5 | row | gerund | Orpheus not said here | well property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sweep | past | Orpheus | Orpheus's fingers | the harp | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme across harp=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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